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  Crisis in Kenya: land, displacement and the search for 'durable solutions'

  Overseas Development Institute, 2008

  This policy brief explores the importance of land issues in forced displacement in Kenya, drawing out their implications for current humanitarian and early recovery interventions in the wake of the violence and displacement that followed the 2007 elections. Key messages nclude:
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  Assessing the security implications of climate change for West Africa: country case studies of Ghana and Burkina Faso

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008

  Traditionally seen as an environmental and an energy issue, climate change is now also being cast as a threat to international peace and security.
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  Community level adaptation to climate change: the potential role of participatory community risk assessment

  Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2008

  Community Risk Assessment (CRA) refers to participatory methods to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities in support of community-based disaster risk reduction, used by many NGOs, community-based organisations, and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
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  Recommendations to reduce the risk of human rights violations and improve access to justice

  International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2008

  Business activities are central to the well-being of national economies and the global economy at large.This paper examines the function of states in regulating the role of transnational corporations and other businesses. It recommends actions to protect people from human rights violations committed by enterprises. 
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  Small arms, armed violence, and insecurity in Nigeria: the Niger Delta in perspective

  Small Arms Survey, 2007

  This study aims to raise awareness of a number of issues relating to insecurity, armed violence, and the proliferation of illicit small arms in Nigeria since the return to democracy in 1999. It particularly focuses on the mounting challenges that now face the Nigerian government.
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  Climate change, security and sustainable development

  Institute for Environmental Security, 2008

  This paper documents the conference entitled “From Bali to Poznan: New Issues, New Challenges”. Convened by the Institute of Environmental Security on the 18 December 2007 and held at the European Parliament in Brussels, the conference discussed the impact of climate change on international security and sustainable development.
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  A new peace strategy for Northern Uganda and the LRA

  ENOUGH, 2008

  This paper outlines the issues behind the current failure to reach a peace deal with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. It examines the causes and consequences of the breakdown in negotiations and provides future options for bringing peace to the region.
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  Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management: case studies and lessons learned

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007

  This publication is part of a series of training materials on natural resource conflict management developed by FAO’s Livelihood Support Programme. It seeks to support sustainable livelihoods in Africa and elsewhere by sharing recent real-life experiences of Africans who have used the processes and principles of consensual negotiation to address natural resource conflicts.
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  The ‘Ambivalence of the Sacred’ in Africa: the impact of religion on peace and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa

  German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2008

  This paper carries out a preliminary assessment of the role of religions in sub-Saharan civil conflicts. Quantitative and qualitative analysis based on a newly compiled database including 28 violent conflicts show that religion plays a role more frequently than is usually assumed and that the effects of religions are principally ambiguous.
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  Humanitarian agenda 2015 - the state of the humanitarian enterprise

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008

  Is ‘humanitarianism’ at risk? The humanitarian community is operating in a ‘changing’ environment which is forcing it to question its own notions of inclusivity and grapple with the fundamental issue of impartiality.

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